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I agree with all the points of this article and would like to add one: Have a quick feedback loop. For me, it's really motivating to be able to make a change and quickly see the results. Many problems just vanish or become tangible to solve when you playfully modify your source code and observe the effect.
Yeah... He said similar things about Linux.
I wonder why that is? Is it because it is a runtime, and getting compatibility there is harder than just for a straight package manager?
Can someone who tried bun and didn't adopt it personally or at work chime in and say why?
[0] https://aleyan.com/blog/2025-task-runners-census/#javascript...
Even some principles aren't known. I always recommend the book Head First: Design Patterns. It's in Java, but the lessons can be applied in every language.
Unfortunately, we are in a 'post-knowledge' era... I don't know how we can keep things up at this pace.
I can only discourage anyone from applying Java patterns all over the place. One example in JavaScript: There was a functionality that required some parameters with default values. The plain solution would have been:
Instead, they created a class with private properties and used the builder pattern to set them. Totally unnecessary.